Lian Li PC-A77F Full Tower PC Case

[Sheravat]

I just came to know from my cousin about the Lian Li PC-A77F. Lian Li is a concept - the manufacturer is among the largest numbers in business and has, especially in the high end of a continuing good reputation. This has over the years mainly through the range of high quality and therefore formed usually not very cheap aluminum housings, which were characterized by their exclusive choice of materials, their space and especially with the most minimalist design of brushed aluminum surfaces long unique. So I thought to take some views from you guys, since you are more in technical field. Please guide me properly by providing some notes about the Lian Li PC-A77F Full Tower PC Case. I am expecting some quicker help from your side.

[Avikshit Sinha]

The PC-A77F is available in three different colors - in addition to the tested black and silver version of the housing there is also anodized red. The red variant is the only one in the interior is also colored accordingly - that is in the black version, contrary to a certain trend for other manufacturers, but unfortunately not the case.

[Lawford]

The technical data of the housing in a compact overview:

• Material: Aluminum
• Dimensions: approx 595 x 220 x 590 mm (H x W x D, for standard and wide window: 207 mm)
• Weight: about 9.2 kg
• twelve 5.25" front drive bays
• three adapters with three drive bays for 3.5" hard drives show (three 5.25" bays)
• three 120-mm fan in the front (1,200 U / min, illuminated in blue)
• two 140 mm fan in the lid (1.000 U / min, illuminated in blue)
• a 120 mm fan in the rear (1,500 rpm)
• Motherboard form factors: ATX, Micro ATX, Extended ATX, CEB
• four USB 3.0 -, one eSATA and two audio ports in the lid
• Single-channel fan controller with three levels (7, 9 and 11 volts)

[Sydney_7]

In addition to what the large interior brings so with it - twelve drive bays and E-ATX capability - the PC-A77F has a special four USB 3.0 front ports, and a simple fan controller which, however, in the case very well hidden, and in the instructions are not documented. It comes with otherwise all parts that you need to start operating the housing. For screws, spacers and other hardware is a small transparent plastic box with multiple compartments is, bringing the otherwise usual hassle of dealing with several small plastic bags for the screws. Very practical!!

[Galbraith]

The outward appearance is typical for the manufacturer kept simple and straightforward, the description therefore requires only a few words: The casing is made of brushed and decorated in our case, black anodized aluminum, only the rear wall of bare aluminum is an exception. The front consists of all the twelve 5.25" bays, which are covered with perforated metal panels and framed in aluminum profiles. Another design element is located next to the twelve panels per side nor a more sublime piece of aluminum, which extends across the entire front and obviously used for the optical separation of the disks from the rest of the front.

[Chakradev]

The profiles of the front housing edges go to two 45-degree angles over directly into the side walls. Notable elements are just the logo on the front bottom, the two vents in the lid and the controls - although the connections are elegantly concealed by a small door - and off almost not visible LEDs in the upper right front. The feet are, as one of the Lian Li knows, in the design of hi-tower-held devices, which assembles with the rest of the case very well.

[Reckon]

The entire front of the housing is occupied by the continuous 5.25" cage, provides the rich twelve o'clock slots. The lower nine of which are occupied by default of three bays, which shall in turn each of three 3.5" bays available. The drive shaft is at a distance of three squares fitting removable shelves mounted to facilitate the installation of the HDD bays. The top three slots are provided with tool-locks, all the other drives must be bolted.

[Damien25]

The interior can be seen immediately, which comes from forging the test object. Almost all parts and detailed solutions we have seen in other cases the manufacturer, and the overall impression of the interior with plenty of bare aluminum can recognize them immediately. It is striking mainly perpendicular to the interior extending strut with seven small openings, scheduled for the additional attachment of the expansion cards. Especially with long video cards with severe cooling solutions here is sagging or even damage being prevented, but you can remove the entire strut also, and then gets a lot easier to access the interior. Several threads positions in the housing, the position of the strut can be varied to the front or back, to the lengths of different graphics cards into account. Apart from the drive locks on the interior offers everything you expect from a high-quality Bigtower - accommodated in the first place a lot of space for all components from the motherboard to the power supply on the bottom and a possibility, thanks to a few centimeter of air in the cover and a water cooling radiator. Fix The ability to plug-in cards and the power supply without any tools, round out the package. As icing on the cake, we would still want a removable Mainboardtray, similar to that of some competing products, this is price and size class.

[taher]

When assembling a system with the PC-A77F a curious discrepancy between the fall of the excellent material quality and workmanship one hand, and some half-hearted detailed solutions on the other. Specifically, we noticed three details that could have been better able to solve: the fan control, the brace to support long cards and the fan grill on the rear 120mm fan. The latter is a copy of pressed sheet metal and not the conventional chromium-plated steel tube, which in appearance more suited to the beige painted steel enclosures-90s to a modern high-priced high-end tower and not with its sharp edges in the air positively noticeable. The somewhat shaky solution on the support frame for the Cards, which includes a small plastic card for each part and a thumb screw for the adjustment is moving surely one or the other buyers to avoid posting entirely on this strut. The last thing the fan controller - the idea, they hide behind a handle removable front panel, but like, however, is a single channel with three control levels of 7, 9 and 11 volts much too simplistic for a case with six fans, which also three different speed profiles exhibit. Again, this is once again reason for criticism: While it is useful to rotate the large 140-mm fans a little slower than the 120-mm fans in the front appear to us the 1500 U / min of the tail fan to high. At this point, only creates a multi-channel fan controller really remedial. In addition, we would have wanted us to turn off the lights to the fans - can flash blue light does not go into any environment with the otherwise noble appearance of the tower.

[Zenon]

Enough of the criticism, because it takes place at a high level. Positive stress is definitely a very good processing of the case. All parts are processed very accurately, what is striking about details such as the hard drive bays or the 5.25 "screens, dirty jobs worked in vain to find this package. Is also the quality of the fan, if you can say, after a short test, well - there is no background noise such as grinding or similar storage can be heard, what with the price of the subjects, but also, of course. By using a fan controller and turn down mainly by the tail fan, it is quite possible to build a PC-A77F a very quiet system. In practice, however, the stands as has been mentioned only rudimentary built-in fan control in the way, so here taken a higher noise level in the purchase or set their own solutions needs. Here is an additional hardware control, or the regulatory functions of modern motherboards. Without separate control of the rear fan to hear this, however, is always clear, the operation with 12 volts is not recommended here. This will join the cabinet in one volume in the midfield.

[Aienstaien]

Due to the voltage at full quite quickly, and rotating many fans, the PC-A77F shows both normal and consistently turned down top spots in the system temperatures. Clearly there needs to be beaten, only the water competition, with air cooling, it does not get any better. If you can live with these points is replaced with the PC-A77F for a lot of money according to a very high base with which to be sure there are no problems with space or cooling capacity. By Lian Li PC-A77F has a housing market that provides even the most extensive high-end configurations, space and cooling capacity available and packed this chic. The processing is as exemplary as one would expect at a price of just under 300 €. For quiet high-end systems of this tower is exactly the right one. However, even this case is not perfect. The half-hearted fan control and the support strut for the plug-in cards feel sad a little. Also can the blue lighting of the fans seem a little inappropriate and should not take the taste of each party concerned.